Manure-spreader.



Patented Jan. 25, 1910.

T. BROWN.

MANURE SPREADER. APPLLCATIGW 111,31) NOV. 10, 1905.

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THEOTHILUS BROWN, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR 'I'O RICHARDSON 'MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS.

MANURE-SPREADEB.

Specification of Letters Patent.

' Patented J an. 25, 1910.

Application filed November 10, 18 65. Se'rial No. 286,671.

1 1s a central sectional view the same, and i Fig. 3 is a top view of the same witli the hood and beater removed.

Similar reference letters and figures refer My invention relates to improvements in manure Spreaders by which the manure as desired, may be either deposited in drills or rested by the hinged cover 18 and the sides furrows or may be s read broadcast from the carrying receptac e. Referring to the accompanying drawings, 1 denotes the body of the cart or other receptacle in which the manure is carried.

2 is an endless moving apron forming the bottom of the cart 1, and composed of slats sprocket wheel 4 at the rear of the cart, and a similar sprocket wheel at the front of the cart, not shown. The apron 2 is'operatively connected by actuating mechanism with one of the su porting w eels in the ordinary and well known manner. The heater 6 is provided with a driving mechanism which is also connected with one of the rear supporting wheels in the ordinary.manner, as will be well understood by those conversant i with manure spreaders. The above travelin bottom and heater and means for revo vin both are well known and form no part 0 my'invention.

Attached to the rear of the cart at .each side are curved arms; 7, 7, which support a barrel 8 open at the top at 9, which opening is at approximately the level of the traveling apron 2. A shaft 10 is supported coir centric with the barrel 8 by means of I brackets 11, 11, and an endless screw 12 is attached to the shaft 10. At onecnd of the l shaft 10 is a sprocket wheel 13 which is coni nected by a chain 14 with a sprocket wheel 15 attached to the shaft of the beater 6. The opposite end 16 of the barrel 8 is left open, and the rotation of the screw 12by means of the sprocket wheel 13 and chain 14 is toward the open end 16 of the barrel 8. Mounted onthe body of the cart and extending over each end of the barrel 8 are side pieces 17 which serve to support the ends of a jointed cover 18. This cover 18 is hinged above the beater and the lower side resis upon a tail piece 19 hinged to the barrel 8 at 20.

In the center and on the lower side of the barn-1H is an openin 21 which is closed by a hinged cover 22; H ilOOk 23 is provided to hold the cover 22 in its open position.

The operation of my device is as follows:'lhe manure placed in the cart is fed, when the cart is in motion, toward the beater by the traveling bottom or apron 2. The revolving beater disintegrates the manurc and imparts a movement to it away from the rear end of the cart. The motion is ar- 1? which contact with and still further disintegrate the manure, and the flying particles of manure fall through the openin 9 into the barrel 8. The screw 12 revolving in the direction of the open end 16 of the barrel 8 impels the manure in the barrel 8 through the open end 16 and it falls into a drill or furrow-"through which the cart is passing. If it is desired to place manure in two furrows or drills at once, the' cover 22 is removed from the opening, 21, and, the cart being in the proper position, the manure in one half of the barrel 8 is driven out through the opening 21 into one furrow and through the open end 16 into another.

The cart may be quickly adjusted so that it Will cover the ground broadcast with manure, by folding back the-hinged cover 18, thereby allowing the manure from the beater to escape from the tail of the cart, and by dropping the hinged tail piece 19 to cover the opening 9 in the barrel 8,

which prevents the entranceof manure into the barrel 8.

What .I claim as my invention and de- 1 sire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In a manure spreader, the combination with a rotary beater, of a barrel provided with an opening for receiving the manure from said beater, means for distributing the manure in drills from said barrel, removable means for guiding the manure fr on! said beater to said opening; in said barrel, and removable means for closing said opening.

2. In a manure spreader, the combinationwith a rotary beater arranged to deliver manure broadcast, of a barrel and means for delivering the manure in drills from said barrel, means for covering said beater, and means for opening said barrel, whereby the manure is deposited from said beater in said barrel, said means adjustable to close said barrel and expose said heater, whereby the manure is deliveredbroadcast from said beater.

3. In a manure spreader, the combination with a revolving beater arran ed to deliver manure broadcast, of a barre with its axis parallel to the axis of said heater, means for directing the manure from said beater to said barrel, said barrel provided with an opening equal in length to the lerigth of said beater tov receive manure from said heater, and a removable cover to close said opening.

4. In a manure spreader, the combination with a rotary beater arranged to deliver the manure broadcast, of a barrel provided with an'opening for receiving the manure from said beater, means'for directing the manure as delivered from said heater to said opening in said barrel, means for delivering the manure 1n drillsfrom said barrel, and removable means for .preventing the entrance of manure into said barrel. v

5. In a. manure spreader, the combinition with a rotarybeater, of a barrel provided with an opening in its top for receiving the manure from said heater, a removable cover for said heater, and, a hinged cover for the opening in said barrel arranged to cooperate -1n its vertical position with said cover in guiding the manure from said beater to said barrel.

6, In a manure spreader, the combina 'tion with a rotar beater, a barrel with its, flXlS parallel wit an opening in the end of said barrel and an r the axis otsaid beater,

additional opening in the bottom, and means for delivering the manure in said barrel entirely through the open end or through both the open end and the intermediateopening at will, and removable means for reventing the entrance of manure into said arrel.

Dated this 31st day of October 1905.

THEOPHILUS BROWN.

Witnesses PENELOPE Coameanaen, Rurus B. F owum. 

